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Biorefinery Location and Technology Selection Through Supply Chain Optimization by Marvin, W. Alex, Schmidt, Lanny D, Daoutidis, Prodromos

“…This paper proposes a mixed integer linear program for determining economical biomass processing facility locations and capacities, and applies it to assess…”
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Millisecond Reforming of Solid Biomass for Sustainable Fuels by Dauenhauer, Paul J, Dreyer, Bradon J, Degenstein, Nick J, Schmidt, Lanny D

“…Breaking the coke habit: By coupling thermal decomposition with catalytic partial oxidation, an effective method has been developed to convert solid biomass…”
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Autothermal Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Glycerol to Syngas and to Non-Equilibrium Products by Rennard, David C., Kruger, Jacob S., Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…Glycerol, a commodity by‐product of the biodiesel industry, has value as a fuel feedstock and chemical intermediate. It is also a simple prototype of sugars…”
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Ammonia synthesis enhanced by magnesium chloride absorption by Himstedt, Heath H., Huberty, Mark S., McCormick, Alon V., Schmidt, Lanny D., Cussler, E. L.

“…Conversion to ammonia with Haber–Bosch catalysts can be increased above 95% by selective absorption of ammonia by MgCl2. The maximum conversion depends on…”
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Effect of Alkali Metal Impurities on Co-Re Catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis from Biomass-Derived Syngas by Balonek, Christine M, Lillebø, Andreas H, Rane, Shreyas, Rytter, Erling, Schmidt, Lanny D, Holmen, Anders

“…The effect of alkali impurities on Co-based Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalysts is important for processing biomass-derived synthesis gas containing inorganic ash…”
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Catalysis Research of Relevance to Carbon Management:  Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities by Arakawa, Hironori, Aresta, Michele, Armor, John N, Barteau, Mark A, Beckman, Eric J, Bell, Alexis T, Bercaw, John E, Creutz, Carol, Dinjus, Eckhard, Dixon, David A, Domen, Kazunari, DuBois, Daniel L, Eckert, Juergen, Fujita, Etsuko, Gibson, Dorothy H, Goddard, William A, Goodman, D. Wayne, Keller, Jay, Kubas, Gregory J, Kung, Harold H, Lyons, James E, Manzer, Leo E, Marks, Tobin J, Morokuma, Keiji, Nicholas, Kenneth M, Periana, Roy, Que, Lawrence, Rostrup-Nielson, Jens, Sachtler, Wolfgang M. H, Schmidt, Lanny D, Sen, Ayusman, Somorjai, Gabor A, Stair, Peter C, Stults, B. Ray, Tumas, William

“…The goal of the "Opportunities for Catalysis Research in Carbon Management" workshop was to review within the context of greenhouse gas/carbon issues the…”
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Modeling the partial oxidation of methane in a short-contact-time reactor by Deutschmann, Olaf, Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…Partial oxidation of methane in monolithic catalysts at very short contact times offers a promising route to convert natural gas into syngas (H2 and CO), which…”
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A critical evaluation of Navier–Stokes, boundary-layer, and plug-flow models of the flow and chemistry in a catalytic-combustion monolith by Raja, Laxminarayan L., Kee, Robert J., Deutschmann, Olaf, Warnatz, Juergen, D. Schmidt, Lanny

“…The objective of this paper is to evaluate three alternative formulations for simulating the steady-state flow and chemistry in a honeycomb channel for…”
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Economic Optimization of a Lignocellulosic Biomass-to-Ethanol Supply Chain by Alex Marvin, W., Schmidt, Lanny D., Benjaafar, Saif, Tiffany, Douglas G., Daoutidis, Prodromos

“…This paper presents an optimization study of the net present value of a biomass-to-ethanol supply chain in a 9-state region in the Midwestern United States…”
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A Multistep Surface Mechanism for Ethane Oxidative Dehydrogenation on Pt- and Pt/Sn-Coated Monoliths by Donsì, Francesco, Williams, Kenneth A, Schmidt, Lanny D

“…A computational study of ethane oxidative dehydrogenation to ethylene on Pt- and Pt/Sn-coated monoliths is presented as an improvement to previous kinetic…”
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Chemical engineering Hybrid routes to biofuels by Schmidt, Lanny D, Dauenhauer, Paul J

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Effects of H2O and CO2 addition in catalytic partial oxidation of methane on Rh by MICHAEL, Brian C, DONAZZI, Alessandro, SCHMIDT, Lanny D

“…Spatial profiles of autothermal methane CPO on Rh-based catalysts illustrate the effects of H2 O and CO2 addition on mass transfer, water gas shift, and steam…”
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Role of Potassium and Phosphorus in Catalytic Partial Oxidation in Short Contact Time Reactors by Chakrabarti, Reetam, Schmidt, Lanny D

“…Potassium and phosphorus represent inorganics commonly found in biomass and can significantly affect catalytic gasification of biomass. The alkaline and acidic…”
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Oxidative Pyrolysis of Polystyrene into Styrene Monomers in an Autothermal Fixed-Bed Catalytic Reactor by Sun, Hui, Rosenthal, Corey, Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…Styrene monomer recovery: A selective stream of styrene from fast pyrolysis of polystyrene is obtained with an autothermal fixed‐bed reactor containing…”
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Effects of biomass inorganics on rhodium catalysts: I. Steam methane reforming by Chakrabarti, Reetam, Colby, Joshua L., Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…[Display omitted] ► Steam methane reforming was used to study effect of inorganics on Rh catalysts. ► Inorganics deposited on the catalyst (1 inorganic atom/5…”
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Rapid lightoff of syngas production from methane: A transient product analysis by Williams, Kenneth A., Leclerc, Corey A., Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…Steady‐state production of syngas (CO and H2) can be attained within 10 s from room‐temperature mixtures of methane and air fed to a short‐contact‐time reactor…”
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Spatial profiles in partial oxidation of methane and dimethyl ether in an autothermal reactor over rhodium catalysts by CHAKRABARTI, Reetam, KRUGER, Jacob S, HERMANN, Richard J, BLASS, Samuel D, SCHMIDT, Lanny D

“…Catalytic partial oxidation (CPO) reactors have complex concentration and temperature gradients which make it difficult to understand the mechanism of…”
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Chemical and geometric effects of Ce and washcoat addition on catalytic partial oxidation of CH4 on Rh probed by spatially resolved measurements by DONAZZI, Alessandro, MICHAEL, Brian C, SCHMIDT, Lanny D

“…Using a spatially resolved sampling technique, the catalytic partial oxidation of CH4 to synthesis gas was investigated over 80 ppi [alpha]-Al2O3 foams coated…”
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Conversion of glycerol to light olefins and gasoline precursors by Blass, Samuel D., Hermann, Richard J., Persson, Nils E., Bhan, Aditya, Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…[Display omitted] •Conversion of glycerol to olefins in a staged reactor with zeolite and metal stages.•High temperatures favor light olefins; low temperatures…”
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Methanol dehydration to dimethyl ether in a staged autothermal millisecond residence time reactor by Sun, Hui, Schmidt, Lanny D.

“…[Display omitted] ► Methanol dehydrates to DME in auto thermal millisecond contact time reactor. ► Highest DME yield is ∼80% in the methanol side feed…”
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